Subject: ghost busters  was Re: [BoundaryPoint] Historic geographic anomalies<br/>
Date: Jan 01, 2001 @ 03:29<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-405317091">arif<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;     Mike, many of the original states were supposed<br/>
&gt;to go from the Atlantic to Pacific.  Massachusetts<br/>
&gt;actually had another exclave that stretched to<br/>
&gt;Pacific.  The most interesting Atlantic-Pacific<br/>
&gt;stretching was South Carolina (I think, I need to find<br/>
&gt;the atlas; it could be Georgia), which was supposed to<br/>
&gt;stretch to Pacific in a narrow lane, but the<br/>
&gt;definition of the lane was mistaken, thus there was<br/>
&gt;technically no such lane.  I am not sure, but the fact<br/>
&gt;that there was no lane may have been discovered after<br/>
&gt;they gave up the lane.  Thus there could have been a<br/>
&gt;ghost ghost exclave.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>it is true that 6 maybe 7 of the original colonies legally reached the<br/>
pacific at some time<br/>
  albeit with several in mutual as well as international conflict<br/>
but i dont believe there were ever any transcontinental states<br/>
<br/>
massachusetts was one of these transcontinental colonies<br/>
& tho mapmakers sometimes show it interrupted by eastern ny & the great lakes<br/>
i believe it never was legally disconnected but only disputed in places<br/>
& so i think mass never really had any legal exclaves other than maine<br/>
<br/>
i would agree mass has at least 2 or 3 pseudo ghost exclaves<br/>
if that is what you mean<br/>
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<br/>
you are right about sc too<br/>
& she was mistaken about herself<br/>
so that makes a different kind of pseudo ghost<br/>
a pseudo ghost proruption in fact<br/>
& a very interesting one i agree<br/>
but again there was no exclave since there was no territorial disconnection<br/>
even in the distorted imaginings of sc<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;<br/>
&gt;  <br/>
&gt;     Jesper, you have no idea the can of worms Panama<br/>
&gt;Canal Zone is.  It will be one of my geographical<br/>
&gt;oddities later<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;  Both Colon and the<br/>
&gt;exclave within Colon had coast, but the maritime<br/>
&gt;borders surrounded them, thus making them exclaves.<br/>
&gt;Whew!<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>looking forward to this too<br/>
m</div>